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I teach programming in Visual Studio. We want to run it on a terminal server. The problem is that whenever we compile our programs, the Windows refuses to start the created exe file. (I didn't even ...

How can i block all executables in a machine unless i verify it. I have multiple clients and i want to do it as programatically (I am using Visual-Studio-2010). It can be done through registry using ...

I just implemented BackInfo on our servers, deployed via GPO.
Everything is working as intended while users and administrators log on and off.
Problems arise when a user disconnects and reconnects an ...

Is it possible in OS X (Assume 10.7+) to disable execution of any file (even files in subdirectories) of a specified folder?
I don't mean with chmod, but with some kind of security framework. Ideally ...

I have a server (centOS) on which I would like to install the staple development tools. Java, Tomcat, and MySql.
What is a good way to write a script that can be ran on newly spawned server so that ...

I have a couple of Windows box (XP and 2008) where a few exe files (unwise.exe - from WISE installation system - among others) simply disappear from time to time.
I tried to narrow down this issue by ...

I've been tasked with building a command line tool that we will be providing to our enterprise customers so that they can use the API to upload data to our platform. The API works with standard cURL ...

I'm using a git post-update hook to run a command via sudo, and I get the error: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo. I believe I need to modify /etc/sudoers but I don't know how to do this. ...

I built a C program using make on Ubuntu. The resulting bin file is executeable via ./binfilename but not by just executing it in the directory it was build.
How can i "convert" it to a bin file that ...

I am trying to execute a program on a CIFS mounted partition in SUSE 11.1. Whenever I try executing it, I get a "could not execute binary file" error. Using strace, I was able to determine that the ...

Can php5-fpm be configured to use php executables?
I want to compile php separately for some websites on the same server where as some of them use the same executable. Can php5-fpm be configured that ...

I've just had two occurrences of windows 7 stalling an execution until I hit enter on the command prompt/powershell. Afterward execution seems to continue as expected.
First was an batch file of copy ...

I've got a CGI script written in python (starts with #!/usr/bin/env python) that executes fine on the server. I type in /home/company/server/root/adam/code.cgi and it outputs the right output. I go to ...

When I run the msiexec.exe with an msi file, it runs perfectly.
The problem is that many install files are not msi's but exe's.
My question is: How can I run an exe file with the msiexec.exe command?
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I was trying to install weblogic 9 to test if an application is working correctly when migrated from a previous release. I downloaded the "Oracle WebLogic Server 9.2 MP3" and I was able to install it ...

I distribute a utility for developers which is designed to reside on a server share and is executed from the server on the local PC or Terminal Services/Citrix session. It does not require any admin ...

I am trying to build a web application (running on Linux servers) in which the user will upload an executable, the executable will be ran against a particular input available on the server (fed via ...

I have taken steps to prevent software from being downloaded from the Internet as it was being abused by students. This was implemented using ISA 2006's Content Type filter condition "Application". ...

We have an inhouse application Fattracs that is used by 10-30 users over Citrix. All users have starts an own instans. The exe-file resides on several servers with Windows 2003 R2 that is loadbalanced ...

I want to ensure that users of my system are incapable of chmodding files +x, and I do not want anything in /home/ or /var/ to be executable.
I can't put them on separate partitions.
Running Ubuntu ...